Boats are extremely fragile; if you crash into anything they break, and they don't drop enough material to build a new boat. The little bit of lag you get in Multiplayer makes them really, really unwieldy, so they're only really any use in single player.
Notch has announced the official release date for Minecraft to be this November, but it doesn't mean the game will stop updating after that. There's so much planned and promised that I doubt they'll be finished by then.
Endermen (sg. Enderman) are a new aggressive mob that completely ignore you, as long as you don't look at them.
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